Chapter 2365 — The Mysterious Old Man Again

"Yao Yao, it's just a look around! We haven't gone out to have fun in ages..." Shen Yushu clung to Gu Mengyao's arm and pleaded.

"But..." Gu Mengyao looked toward Wei Zhao.

"Then let's go take a look. Just a little flutter for fun—don't bet too much, a bit of play is enough." Wei Zhao had no fondness for gambling; nine bets out of ten were swindles. Still, there was no harm in the young miss and Xiaoshu having a look.

"See! I knew my Ace of Spades brother is the best to Xiaoshu!" Shen Yushu said happily, raising both hands in approval.

"Hurry up and drink your sweet soup before it goes cold!" Gu Mengyao said, rather helplessly.

"Okay, okay... but Xiaoshu has to hit the restroom first and drain the tank..." Shen Yushu stuffed her phone into her trouser pocket with a grin, then scampered off toward the restroom...

"Shameless, saying whatever comes into your head..." Gu Mengyao frowned.

"Heh, it's fine." Wei Zhao smiled.

"You spoil her all day long—she's practically turning into a little hellion!" Gu Mengyao said in exasperation.

"And if I weren't around, would she not be a hellion?" Wei Zhao shrugged helplessly.

Meanwhile, Zhao Guangyin had, on Old Master Zhao's orders, sent men to find Chen Xi, while he himself headed for Chen Xi's mother's residence... This was the first time in many years—since he had shaken off Chen Xi's mother—that he had gone to see her!

Facing Chen Xi's mother, Zhao Guangyin felt not the slightest emotion. Back then, she had been nothing but a plaything in his eyes, a waitress he had taken by force after drunken lust. He felt not a shred of guilt or apology toward her; were it not for this present use, Zhao Guangyin would never have gone to see her.

Still, for the sake of the disguise—so that Chen Xi's mother would willingly make the call and ask Wei Zhao for help—Zhao Guangyin worked hard to put on a convincing expression...

At the same time, an old man handed a small box to a young girl and said to her, "This is the dose for this time. Hurry and swallow it..."

The girl silently took the small box and opened it. Inside lay a delicate little medicine bottle. She opened the bottle, sighed, and with a complicated look on her face swallowed the medicine within.

"You know what to do about the matter I told you, yes?" The old man glanced at the girl and asked.

"Mm..." The girl nodded, her face pale.

The old man nodded, then said to her, "All right, go..."

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When Shen Yushu returned, she quickly gulped down the whole bowl of sweet soup with a slurp, then patted her full belly and said with a grin, "Let's go to the casino!"

"Let's go." Wei Zhao nodded.

The three of them reached the elevator, and pressed the button for the first basement level. Of course, the first basement was a supermarket, not a casino; to get to the casino, one had to go down through another passage on that level, one that only those in the know could find.

But Shen Yushu had clearly done her homework beforehand and knew where the casino entrance was.

The three arrived at the supermarket on the first basement level, but instead of entering it, they walked toward the exit of a fire passage in a remote, out-of-the-way corner.

"Didn't expect that—you know quite a lot, Xiaoshu?" Wei Zhao was a little surprised that Shen Yushu could find such a hidden place.

"Heh heh, there's a guy in our class who's chasing after Yao Yao and brags in front of us all day long, saying he goes to the casino and loses millions at a time, and how his family is so, so rich." Shen Yushu said.

"Oh? Someone's pursuing you?" Wei Zhao turned to look at Gu Mengyao.

"I never paid him any attention—who knows what he says?" Gu Mengyao shook her head innocently. "I didn't even know there was a casino here."

"Heh..." Wei Zhao chuckled. He had some understanding of the young miss's character by now—she really was that sort of person. Back when Zhong Yongliang had pursued her, everything Zhong Yongliang said had been said to Shen Yushu; as for Gu Mengyao, whatever he said, she simply never noticed. "There won't be any trouble, will there?"

"Just some rich kid—his family isn't even as wealthy as Uncle Chu, and he can't begin to compare with my Ace of Spades brother's worth. Unless Yao Yao lost her mind, she'd never overlook someone close by to chase someone far off—and if she did fancy anyone, it'd be my Ace of Spades brother!" Shen Yushu said matter-of-factly.

"Xiaoshu, if you want to go to the casino, then go—where does all this nonsense come from? Say one more word and I'm not going." Gu Mengyao gave her a furious kick.

"Okay... I'll stop talking." Shen Yushu hurriedly shut her mouth.

The three of them entered the safety passage, and were about to head downstairs along it when two security guards stopped them, saying politely, "Hello. Below is the supermarket's storage area—a restricted zone. Guests, please go no further."

"We're not going to the storage area—we're going to play." Shen Yushu said, flashing the gold bank card in her hand at the guard.

"Please wait a moment, all three of you." The guard glanced at how they were dressed—clearly two rich young ladies and their bodyguard—then picked up his walkie-talkie and said a couple of words into it: "Guests have arrived. Someone please come up and receive them!"

Before long, a man in a neatly pressed suit came up the stairs from below. Likewise, upon reaching the top he looked Gu Mengyao, Shen Yushu, and Wei Zhao up and down, and finally his gaze settled on the diamond gold bank card in Shen Yushu's hand. His eyes narrowed slightly, and then he smiled. "Esteemed guests, this way, please!"

With his trained eye, he could of course tell that the minimum balance on the card in Shen Yushu's hand was five million. For a young girl to carry such a card—their status went without saying: typical daughters of wealthy families, exactly the sort of clientele this place worked hardest to attract.

What surprised Shen Yushu, however, was that the second basement level really was the supermarket's warehouse, not the casino she had imagined. This was presumably a facade created to conceal the casino and to evade police investigation.

The man in the black suit led Wei Zhao and the two girls quickly through the warehouse and came to another iron door that looked rather battered. He pressed a remote button in his hand, and the iron door rose slowly. The scene inside was a world of its own!

Outside was a warehouse in utter disarray, but inside the iron door, it could only be described as dazzlingly opulent! Within the iron door was a hall of roughly a thousand square meters, its uniform golden carpet laid out with all manner of gaming tables and devices in orderly fashion—dice tables, roulette, twenty-five, blackjack, baccarat, and all kinds of slot machines.

Compared with the outside, the gloom of the warehouse was gone at a stroke—here all was brilliantly lit!